Data, Decisions and Control

US researchers have developed a new scaffold that could help with the implantation of photoreceptors grown from stem cells Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have tackled the challenge of delivering photoreceptors to the retina …

Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos is among the 13 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members chosen to receive 2021 Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. Papailiopoulos received the …

In nanoscale devices—such as the nanometer-sized transistors that make up computer microprocessors—tiny heat currents can have a big effect on those devices’ performance. To measure heat currents, researchers use a technique called calorimetry. Due to …

Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable …

Dan Thoma, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently selected as a 2021 Honorary Member of AIME. Thoma was chosen by the board of TMS, …

University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison …

Despite a year full of uncertainty, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers can still count on the Fall Research Competition. The annual contest offers funding for select research projects across each faculty division — biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and …